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Freeman’s Final Quilts
Silent Auction Fundraiser Roland L. Freeman (July 27, 1936 – August 7, 2023) was a world-renowned photographer of Black folk culture. The largest collection of his photographs is housed at the University of North Carolina’s Southern Folklife Collection at the Wilson Special Collections Library. He was also a quilt designer and collector. Many of his quilts were gifted to the Mississippi Museum of Art and displayed at a recent exhibition, Of Salt and Spirit. In fact, the project on which Freeman was earnestly working at the end of his life was a quilt project about Black women freedom fighters around…
